A video of a road test of the BAIC Arcfox α-S equipped with Huawei Inside went viral on the Chinese internet Thursday, causing shares of the manufacturers Huawei works with, BAIC, Changan, and GAC, to skyrocket.
Weibo blogger @42号车库 has released a full version of the test video explaining the solution Huawei relies on to make autonomous driving a reality.
The car is equipped with three LiDARs, six millimeter-wave radars, and nine cameras for autonomous driving, and is powered by a Huawei processor with up to 400Tops of computing power.
The car uses four cameras at the front, retaining the telephoto and wide-angle lenses of traditional models, but replacing them with a binocular camera in the middle that has human-eye-like ranging capabilities.
The car is equipped with Huawei's ADS (Autonomous Driving Solution), which is the industry's first ASIL-D certified high-level autonomous driving full-stack system.
Based on the L4 autonomous driving architecture, ADS provides a full-stack solution for L4~L2+ autonomous driving, enabling mass production of autonomous driving systems on a large scale and compatible with AUTOSAR and ROS.
Huawei ADS uses autonomous driving SoCs and cooperates with car companies to optimize algorithms for China's complex driving scenarios through data from road tests.
Huawei has been testing and upgrading the ADS since 2018, with dozens of L4 ADS-equipped Audi cars undergoing road tests in 2019.
Huawei says its Mobile Data Center has entered into testing partnerships with car companies including Hongqi, Dongfeng Motor, Higer Bus, and Neolix.
Previously Huawei said it has partnered with BAIC New Energy, Changan, and GAC to create three sub-brands together in the future.
Among them, Arcfox, jointly built by Huawei and BAIC New Energy, will launch a series of models starting from the fourth quarter of this year.
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